Andy Hall wrote:
On 2007-01-05 08:45:06 +0000, "TheScullster" said:


The technology is certainly useful, but I wouldn't use it as the only
form of networking in the house.

Good comments from Andy.

I did a very large project for a major Telcoms provider, and the
problems we had country wide with the unlicensed spectrum that is
allocated (2.4GHz) was very significant.
When we had performance issues - a sniffer would show that packet
retransmission was far higher than people expected - due to blocking of
channels by all sorts of devices.
Bluetooth phones, PDA's, motion detectors, microwaves, Wireless Lans
etc.

This brought the expected data throughput down dramatically form the
theoretical figures expected.

Most companies will stick to cabled infrastructure, cheap, manageable,
understood, and almost immune from interference.

In my own house I have multiple CAT5e & CT100 points to every room,
when my son had a PC for XMAS ... took seconds to patch him in to my
ethernet router.
I can also unplug him just as easily :-)

Yes I have a WiFi access point for when I want to use my lap top and
move about in the house, but this is secure (reasonably) with WPA-PSK
TKIP encryption, and even then once a link established a VPN
connection is used.

I agree with Andy - I have checked locally ... and most of my
neighbours have open port WiFi modems on their Broadband lines.


Wired is safer and more sensible for the home.